Category Archives: jackiedinnis

My last throw of the dice

Posted on July 21, 2016 by Jackie Dinnis

Writing this blog has been the best thing I did in a long time. It has connected me to many second and third cousins and friends that I had lost touch with. But I wonder if there comes a time … Continue reading →

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A Month of Football

Posted on June 10, 2016 by Jackie Dinnis

Today is the start of the Euro 2016 football tournament. I have always loved football and look forward to the Euro’s every four years. To celebrate this fact I will try to post about football for the rest of the … Continue reading →

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Searching for old friends – Karen Slade

Posted on April 12, 2016 by Jackie Dinnis

I am trying to find my old friends, and one of these is Karen Slade. She lived a few doors away from me in Farm Hill and was a year or so older than me. We both went to Woodingdean … Continue reading →

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Searching For Old Friends – Deborah and Marilyn Simms

Posted on April 12, 2016 by Jackie Dinnis

Looking through my old photographs I have found some of old friends that I would love to make contact with again. Two of these are sisters Deborah and Marilyn Simms. They used to live in Suffolk Street, Hove and their … Continue reading →

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School Trip to France (did I go on my own?)

Posted on April 12, 2016 by Jackie Dinnis

I have been looking through some old photograph albums that I previously took no notice of because the photo’s are not of the best quality! Going back to 1970 when I was 12 years old and in the first year at … Continue reading →

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When I was three months old

Posted on March 22, 2016 by Jackie Dinnis

I have been looking through a book of old family photographs and found some of me aged three months. At first I thought this would have been August 1958. But I’m wondering if it might have been a few days earlier, at the … Continue reading →

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It can’t be Half a Century ago?

Posted on February 24, 2016 by Jackie Dinnis

But time tells me it must be. Where does the time go? Thank you to Sheila for leaving a lovely message for me on here. She spotted herself in the nativity photograph I posted before Christmas. Here it is again: … Continue reading →

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The Horrors of the New Computer

Posted on January 29, 2016 by Jackie Dinnis

Hello 🙂 I’m back! I don’t know about you, but I would have thought spending a few hundred pounds on an item would mean you should be really happy with it, and excited and pleased with your purchase. My old computer more … Continue reading →

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Magnification

Posted on January 18, 2016 by Jackie Dinnis

Magnification according to the Collins Dictionary is “the act of magnifying or the state of being magnified” and I have found that this can be improved by using a magnifying glass, rather than using the ‘zoom’ on the computer. For … Continue reading →

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Review of My Year

Posted on December 30, 2015 by Jackie Dinnis

Looking back at 2015 I have been surprised at how much has been accomplished. This blog is called ‘Meeting my family’ and that is always my first aim – to meet new family and introduce you to the family I … Continue reading →

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